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| | Encyclopedia: Liberal Catholic Church |
 | | The Liberal Catholic Church welcomes all and everyone to its services, those who have faith and those who have lost faith; those who believe in the literal exposition of the scriptures and those who accept the allegorical spiritual interpretation. | | | The Liberal Catholic Church is one of thirty or more Catholic Churches in the world which are independent of Rome, such as the Greek Orthodox, Coptic, Old Catholic, etc. It teaches the Christianity of the Christ and administers the seven Sacraments which are regarded as channels of His blessing. | | | The Liberal Catholic Church is a form of Christianity open to theosophical ideas. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Liberal-Catholic-Church
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| | Info and facts on 'Liberal Catholic Church' |
| | The Liberal Catholic Church is a form of Christianity (A monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior) open to theosophical ideas (additional info and facts about theosophical ideas). | | | The Liberal Catholic Church International maintains that these beliefs and lifestyle choices should be optional for clergy, and practices the ordination of women (additional info and facts about ordination of women) to all Holy Orders up to and including bishop. | | | In 1941, there was a schism in the Liberal Catholic Church in the United States, surrounding a controversy involving Bishop Charles Hampton, who, while he was himself a theosophist, wished to keep adherence to theosophical tenets optional for the clergy. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/l/li/liberal_catholic_church.htm
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| | Newman Reader - Catholic Encyclopedia Essay |
| | From 1841 Newman was on his deathbed as regarded the Anglican Church. | | | John Henry Newman thus continues in modern literature the Catholic tradition of East and West, sealing it with a martyr's faith and suffering, steadfast in loyalty to the truth, while discerning with a prophet's vision the task of the future. | | | Of course he accepted the dogmatic definitions; and in 1874 he defended the Church against Gladstone's charge that "Vaticanism" was equivalent to the latest fashions in religion (see his "Letter to the Duke of Norfolk".). |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: States of the Church |
| | The law of Constantine the Great (321), by which the Christian Church was declared qualified to hold and transmit property, first gave a legal basis to the possessions of the Church of Rome. | | | Pius IX excommunicated all participants in and authors of the occupation of the States of the Church. | | | He also made old parts of the States of the Church subject to him, when in 1195 he placed the Margravate of Ancona, the Duchy of Ravenna, and the ancient exarchate (the Romagna) under the lord high steward of the realm, Markwald of Anweiler, as his viceroy. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14257a.htm
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| | Catholic Encyclopedia’s and Dictionaries |
| | The doctrine of the Holy Trinity is not taught in the O[ld] T[estament]. | | | The doctrine of the Holy Trinity is not taught in the OT. | | | Among the Jews and in the Apostolic Church the Divine name was representative of God. |
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